RAOC Gazette - page 251
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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Training Centre SCHQOL OF ORDNANCE XHH School Cross Country Team (you either run or play golf here—when you are not working) entered the Training Centre event and came a creditable third. The effervescent Captain Ted Walcroft, in between lectures, finished third but even this fine effort was topped by Lance Corporal Peter Knox who led the field home in twenty nine minutes and ten seconds. Captain Dudley Ells finished in fifteenth place and Captain Brian Nimick completed the scoring in twenty seventh place. We welcome to the School Major Frank Warren from Berlin and W02 Ian Major from Bicester. We wish them well and are sure they will enjoy the job. We have bid a sad farewell to Keith Mentzel but as he has only crossed the road 10 the Training Centre Headquarters we console ourselves at (he fact of seeing him only slightly less frequently, The Commonwealth and Foreign Ordnance Officers Course have now left us and headed oft: to all points of the globe carrying with them, we hope, the accumulated knowledge to apply in their own countries. APPRENTICES COLLEGE B COMPANY, Apart from the normal training programme, October provided us with the annual ' Mob Exercise * and a delightful weekend at Browndown Training Camp near Gosport The * Mob Exercise' came and went virtually without incident, wi!h lessons to be learnt on all fronts. Photo Captain M. E, Parsons, B Company of the Apprentices College board HMS Victory at Portsmouth. The high spot proved to be the trip to Browndown, which included a * Walk in the New Forest' (apologies to Horst Jan- kowski) and a visit to Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at Ports- mouth. A brief conversation overheard in the New Forest between an officer of this Company (in combat clothing) and a civilian, displaying all the trappings of someone ex-service, went as follows: Civilian—EEOOOOOH are you chaps soldiers? Officer's reply—No, we've just got nothing else to wear I Civilian—-Are you in the Guards? The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst LIFE at the Academy seems to be all work and no play as there are no overseas exercises taking place for the industrious staff clerk to disappear on though Staff Sergeant Pete Harrison and his crew are busy preparing for the exercise in Cyprus for the Cadets. We have a few moves in the pending tray—Staff Sergeant Ian Munro of G Branch is doing overtime on his Spanish ready for his next job in Columbia. Staff Sergeant George Steven (of AQ fame) has just started a * bricks and mortar * resettlement course in preparation to becoming a civilian early next year and Sergeant ous Curry is packing ready for his posting to Academy Head- quarters leaving Old College in the capable hands of Lance Corporal Ken Robson until a replacement arrives after Christmas. In New College Corporal Bill McClernon is soon off to the bright lights of Berlin and Staff Sergeant Pete Harrison eagerly awaits the arrival of Corporal P. Harrison (two in one office?). Corporal Bronco Lane took Pete at his word when told to get his finger out and had to spend time in hospital having the damage repaired. Lance Corporal Lee Doel is presently undergoing the rigours of the RPC course and will no doubt be challenging the Guards on his return. We have two budding CQMSs in Privates Bob Day and Andy Price having spent a week on exercise in that role (the multi-purpose staff once more). In Victory College Sergeant Ron Can* and his able assistant Corporal Pete Taylor (also to leave for civvy street in the near future) are telling all how busy they are though no one is taking much notice. All that remains is to say that Major lim Houseman is still here. Northern Ireland HEADQUARTERS RAOC WHO writes THE GAZETTE notes? asked the l incoming CRAOC having completed his coup * which included Chairman of The Association Football Committee (Whether he liked it or not) and an interest in cricket (which our intelligence tells us he is pretty good at). The question produced one of those tense silences we have all experienced when a volunteer to perform the duties of Mess Secretary is asked for, we noticed one or two officers shut their eyes in the hope that it made them invisible! Some slid under their desks and the RO, in the best Ken Dodd manner, stopped ironing the cat. The job did not change hands and here we are again for what must be the ninety sixth time faced with producing the chronicle from Northern Ireland. One way of shedding THE GAZETTE note writing job is to continually make rude remarks about somebody else; with this in view we have had under close observation Captain John Withers who sits at his desk blowing the odd wiff from his pipe and occasionally moving a file from his in tray to his out tray. This method of working always has reasonable results because v on the law of averages, only seventy per cent of the files thus moved come back. So far he has not made one false move and we think he must have been well briefed by his predecessor— an event remarkable in itself 1 Major Tim Proratt is playing his new game ' hunt the calor gas cylinder'; we heard him remark that they, the cylinders, must be in the great mythical storehouse in the sky, where furniture abounds, but never becomes earthbound. Makes us turn lyrical: Tnere's a Storehouse in the Sky far away Combat Sups are sure to find it, some sweet day and we give the lot to ASU East and West and just rely on them to do the rest (to the tune of Goldmine in the Sky, and with to the tune of Widdicome Fair) Len Davies Bob Scott Joe Mallett Bill McCluggage Alex Mitchell The ASAs and the clerks and the others and all and the clerks and the others and all. Our last months remarks about Lisbum football team must have spurred them to action, as our latest information from Captain (Goalkeeper) Manners is that they have won their last three matches, and as for the goals against ' They were offside of course/ Furthermore there is no connection with the winning streak and the discipline metred to the wrongdoers by the new Chairman mentioned above. Our Chief Clerk, Staff Sergeant Mayes, suffered a car breakdown when his Mazda refused to move the fuel into the carburettor. (Moral: Buy a British Car—if you can get one). Q Ops are having a frog Cull (too many ops). To end, we would like to thank once again, all those who have contributed to the SSAFA Christmas Market: the wives, ticket buyers, ticket sellers, donators and donation collectors. Thank you once again. Ord nance Depot Northern Ireland ONE wet day at the end of September the Depot was almost brought to a stop by cries of * money for the children' as PC and A in fancy dress dragged a small ammunition cart con- taining Captain Alastair Shackleton in the guise of a big baby around the Depot to raise money for the Save the Children —- 205 — |
| Book number | R0247 |